Comments on: My Son Bears 2011′s Most Popular Name http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/ Raising bilingual and bicultural kids Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Roxana S. http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/#comment-63649 Roxana S. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:53:59 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=17524#comment-63649 I too had Jacqueline on the list of names for my second child, but he ended up being a boy. That’s a cool tradition to stick with the J so everyone’s name starts with the same letter.

]]> By: Roxana S. http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/#comment-63648 Roxana S. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:51:51 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=17524#comment-63648 Do you put an accent on the a? I know a couple of bilingual families who went with Nicolas too. Beautiful name!

]]> By: Roxana S. http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/#comment-63647 Roxana S. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:50:52 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=17524#comment-63647 I’m surprised non-Spanish speakers don’t have problems pronouncing Guillermo. I like that name a lot, although I like the English version William too.

Good luck choosing a name for baby #3 and congrats!

]]> By: Roxana S. http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/#comment-63646 Roxana S. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:49:35 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=17524#comment-63646 Me encanta Sabrina! And so awesome that it’s not on the lists, jajaja!!! Funny how some of us have the names of our future children picked way before they’re born!

]]> By: Roxana S. http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/#comment-63645 Roxana S. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:48:42 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=17524#comment-63645 Isadora reminds me of Celia Cruz’ song Isadora Duncan! I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing your story! Irene is my grandmother’s middle name and she always hated it, but I think it’s very original…

]]> By: Roxana S. http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/#comment-63644 Roxana S. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:14:37 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=17524#comment-63644 I love that name too! And yes, I guess we need to get a bit more creative if we don’t want our kids’ names to be the most popular, but that’s really hard to do when you’re looking for bilingual names, no?

]]> By: jai http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/#comment-63643 jai Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:55:24 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=17524#comment-63643 I always wanted a traditional name especially for a boy.My parents don’t speak English and I wanted something that can be easily said in English and Spanish like David. My husband and I both have names that begin with J and we (he) ended up choosing Jayden as our son’s name. My parents have a difficult time saying it so they call him by his middle name Anthony which they shortened to Tony. (Which both husband and son absolutely hate) Figures!!

I want a name like Jacqueline or Julissa for a girl. Keep with the J name tradition :)

]]> By: Maria Soong http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/#comment-63642 Maria Soong Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:20:17 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=17524#comment-63642 We went with Nicolas and we use Nico as a nickname… Very happy with it because it sounds good in both languages.

]]> By: Ana Flores http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/#comment-63641 Ana Flores Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:54:44 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=17524#comment-63641 Camila es el #3!!! Demasiado popular, but she still gets called CamElia in English all the time!

]]> By: Laura S http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/12/my-son-bears-2011s-most-popuar-name/#comment-63640 Laura S Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:08:22 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=17524#comment-63640 Well we went with Guillermo and Maya for our first two. Our neighborhood is about 50% Latino but even the non-Spanish speakers seem to do okay with pronouncing Guillermo, or Memo when they learn of his nickname. (Actually we experience more issues with Maya which would seem the simpler name – as a testament to the BabyCenter list, everyone asks how “Mia” is doing – lol). For baby #3, due in June, we are considering many names that are on the list, and some others that aren’t. We are even looking at names from other ethnic backgrounds that are easily pronounced by Spanish and English speakers so they fit the bill for our family.

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